Nolo mortem peccatoris (Thomas Morley)

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• CPDL #2811: Finale-2001.
  

Editor: Patricia Maltby (added 2001-06-17).   Score information: 76 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Latin and English

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Title: Nolo mortem peccatoris
Composer: Thomas Morley
Lyricist: Sir William More (c. 1570)

Number of voices: 4vv  Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Anthems
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Tristitiae Remedium Cantiones Selectissimae

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Original text and translations

Latin text

Nolo mortem peccatoris; Haec sunt verba Salvatoris.
Father I am thine only Son, sent down from heav’n mankind to save.
Father, all things fulfilled and done according to thy will, I have.
Father, my will now all is this: Nolo mortem peccatoris.
Father behold my painful smart, taken for man on ev’ry side;
Even from my birth to death most tart, no kind of pain I have denied,
but suffered all, and all for this: Nolo mortem peccatoris.

English translation

"I do not want the death of sinners." These are the words of the Savior.